Jesse Edwards in portal and transfers to WVU

[tptcuse]

We need to lock everyone in a room until the staff has their portal additions nailed down. Axe and LockedOn having a field day with the NIL stuff. It's like a damn Cuse fan virtual civil war on social media right now.

I threw a reasoned response in there to balance it out a little.

 

[djorange1989]

It was so great to see Oliver Luck’s name being tied to the collective that paid Jesse. Like he already didn’t have the most punchable face in college sports

 

[MSOrange]

I’m really sick of Brent Axe. Another local mouthpiece telling half the story.

Yep he's not helping the situation on Twitter.

 

[shandeezy7]

You said he couldn’t put together his thoughts, I think he made them perfectly clear

You think that quote was clear? It was the quote of someone lying while trying not to lie, which made it even more obvious that he was lying.

 

[sutomcat]

Good luck to Jesse. I appreciate his four years at Syracuse.

I hope his new school goes on probation for tampering. As they should.

 

[JustPherU]

I love Jesse but $800K is stoopid money, I get it, $400K is not unreasonable.

It’s going to take real stupid money to stay relevant

 

[Newhouser]

The line implying the school doesn't know what it's doing is a cheap shot. We clearly placed a different value on Jesse than other schools, and Jesse was clearly chasing the biggest bag.
No idea why, as the school seems to screw up most things, but for some reason I'm not panicking...yet

 

[richmondcuse03]

You think that quote was clear? It was the quote of someone lying while trying not to lie, which made it even more obvious that he was lying.

Agree. He talked out of both sides of his mouth. Said it wasn’t about NiL and then bashed Syracuse inaccurately about NIl. It’s clear what he wanted.

 

[Timonen]

Or pissed that SU won’t step up and play with the big boys.I hate what college ball has turned into, but damn we better get our freaking act together.

So far, the big boys have overpayed and failed. More interested in getting it right and being smarter than following the spiraling trends

 

[Knicks411]

No one has an issue with that though. No one is saying “oh he took more money he sucks”.

I feel like there was a decent amount of that in this 110 page thread. (That said there is no way I was reading every post in). Definitely read some "we took a chance on him when he was unheralded recruit, how dare he leave" stuff. Among other comments.

 

[Finwad32]

At $500k, every missed dunk and bunny would’ve infuriated me lol.

Good luck Jesse. **k WV.

 

[littlereg]

You said he couldn’t put together his thoughts, I think he made them perfectly clear

ah yeah so clear he said it wasn’t about NIL and also said it was in the same 3 sentence blurb. But hey I guess some of us just have different definitions of clear.

 

[tptcuse]

It’s going to take real stupid money to stay relevant

But when, according to people in the know here, a player accepts a deal and then demands double it’s better to use that relevancy money on someone else.

 

[JustPherU]

You think that quote was clear? It was the quote of someone lying while trying not to lie, which made it even more obvious that he was lying.

Jesse wanted the cash and he told everyone that.
What part is hard to understand?

 

[Cusefan0307]

But when, according to people in the know here, a player accepts a deal and then demands double it’s better to use that relevancy money on someone else.

Pretty sure this was the third time he went and found more money. Our final offer was actually higher than the original offer.

 

[tptcuse]

Pretty sure this was the third time he went and found more money. Our final offer was actually higher than the original offer.

I heard similar.

 

[two3zone]

Life is going to hit him in the face hard when things at WVU aren't rosy outside the money.

Ehhhh, wasn’t exactly rosy here during his career. Made the tournament once and then three years battling to get to .500.

 

[Day2]

In Jesse's defense, think about every job interview you've ever been on in your life. When they ask "why are you interviewing for this job" the answer is always "I want to make more money" but social norms don't allow us to say that so we have to make up some other BS reason.

If you trash your previous employer in a job interview, you’re not getting the job.

 

[JustPherU]

ah yeah so clear he said it wasn’t about NIL and also said it was in the same 3 sentence blurb. But hey I guess some of us just have different definitions of clear.

I take it as he wanted the cash and he got it.
Always get the other bs in these kids answers, but it is clear as day he wanted the Big bag.

 

[FRANKIEFAN]

Yup. Not sure why he’s trashing the program on the way out. Classless move.

Deep down he didn't want to leave.

Can't think of anyone WVU has ever had like Jesse really agile and athletic and good defensively but not strong and bad at rebounding hes the opposite of all their bigs.

Good player and its a loss but I'm not sure hes the 3rd best guy in the portal and we can go pretty far down the trough and get someone whos 80-90% of him. We also don't play the zone anymore much bigger loss if Red was going to stick to JB's defense.

 

[littlereg]

It’s been reported we offered 400k and that was our limit for him, not player specific. The problem is The optics of this are 10x worse than what actually happened. People are already calling Syracuse broke, behind, etc in the NIL game within the last hour all over social media.

 

[Trueblue25]

Hell even 200k I think would be much.

You dish out those figures to experienced players with leadership qualities. We’re not looking at Jesse down 2 with under 10 seconds to play.

I have no doubt that we’ve already made an appropriate, sizable allowance towards Judah thats waiting for him.

 

[Cusesky8214]

True or not the media is running with it and making us look like amateurs. Between the AW publicity and now all this...not the best look.

 

[Day2]

I mean I was one that has been skeptical of our NIL because I have wanted actual proof it’s cooking but Jesse is just salty Ex here sheesh. Guy got a 4 year degree and still can’t put together his thoughts after a week.

They’re not his thoughts.

 

[tptcuse]

It’s been reported we offered 400k and that was our limit for him, not player specific. The problem is The optics of this are 10x worse than what actually happened. People are already calling Syracuse broke, behind, etc in the NIL game within the last hour all over social media.

We’ll just have to prove them wrong.